[Electronics-talk] Digital TV Transition

[David Andrews]

Actually, it has been announced for years and I also have no 
sympathy.  Broadcasters have big money involved, tower climbers set 
up months ago, antenna switches etc.  It can also cost $20,000 in 
electricity each month to run an analog TV transmitter.  It is also 
my understanding that one of the phone companies has a multimillion 
dollar advertising campaign set to launch the day after cutoff to 
advertise its new services in vacated TV space.  Phone companies and 
others have paid billions for the spectrum and they should be able to 
use it when they were told they could.

Dave

p.s.  eighty-five percent of the country's population gets its TV via 
cable or satellite.  The 15 percent is not huge, and also second or 
third TV's in a household.

DA

At 03:57 AM 1/30/2009, you wrote:
>The senate passed the delay; but, the house did not. I wish y'all 
>would get y'all's facts straight.  As for the proposed delay, I have 
>no sympathy for those who want it.  It's been announced for months, 
>and, people have had more than ample time to prepair.  IF anyone is 
>not ready now, well, too bad.  That's what they get for waiting till 
>the last minute.
>
>
>Sincerely,
>
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>Tom Lange wrote:
>>Hi,
>>Charlie writes:
>>
>>>Well, good news, they delayed the mandate by four months.
>>Really?  I thought I'd heard on the radio the other night that the 
>>proposed four-month delay wasn't going to happen. I hope the 
>>transition is delayed so that accessibility issues can be addressed 
>>and resolved.
>>Tom
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